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Major Section: ACL2 Documentation
A view of ACL2 proofs may be obtained by way of ``proof tree
displays.'' Environments such as emacs may be customized to provide
window-based versions of proof tree displays. (See for example
documentation of the emacs function start-proof-tree,
co-written with Michael K. Smith, that the implementors are happy to
make available.) Proof tree displays may be turned on with the
start-proof-tree and may be turned off with the
start-proof-tree; see start-proof-tree and
see stop-proof-tree.
( DEFTHM PLUS-TREE-DEL ...) ;currently proving PLUS-TREE-DEL 1 Goal preprocess ;"Goal" creates 1 subgoal by preprocessing 2 | Goal' simp ;"Goal'" creates 2 subgoals by simplification c 0 | | Subgoal 2 PUSH *1 ;"Subgoal 2" pushes "*1" for INDUCT ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ;first pass thru waterfall completed c 6 *1 INDUCT ;Proof by induction of "*1" has | <5 more subgoals> ; created 6 top-level subgoals. At ; this point, one of those 6 has been ; proved, and 5 remain to be proved. ; We are currently working on the ; first of those 5 remaining goals.See proof-tree-examples for many examples that contain proof tree displays. But first, we summarize the kinds of lines that may appear in a proof tree display. The simplest form of a proof tree display is a header showing the current event, followed by list of lines, each having one of the following forms.
n <goal> <process> ...Says that the indicated goal created
n subgoals using the
indicated process. Here ``...'' refers to possible additional
c n <goal> <process> ...As above, but calls attention to the fact that this goal is a ``checkpoint'' in the sense that it may be of particular interest. Some displays may overwrite ``c'' with ``>'' to indicate the current checkpoint being shown in the proof transcript.
| <goal> ... | | <k subgoals>Indicates that the goal just above this line, which is pointed to by the rightmost vertical bar (``|''), has
k subgoals, none of which
have yet been processed.
| <goal> ... | | <k more subgoals>As above, except that some subgoals have already been processed.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Separates successive passes through the ``waterfall''. Thus, this ``fencepost'' mark indicates the start of a new proof by induction or of a new forcing round.
See proof-tree-examples for detailed examples. To learn how to
turn off proof tree displays or to turn them back on again,
see stop-proof-tree and see start-proof-tree,
respectively. See checkpoint-forced-goals to learn how to mark
goals as checkpoints that force the creation of goals in forcing
rounds. Finally, see proof-tree-details for some points not
covered elsewhere.
Major Section: PROOF-TREE
Example forms: (checkpoint-forced-goals t) (checkpoint-forced-goals nil)Also see proof-tree.
By default, goals are not marked as checkpoints by a proof tree
display (as described in the documentation for proof-tree)
merely because they force some hypotheses, thus possibly
contributing to a forcing round. However, some users may want such
behavior, which will occur once the command
t) has been executed. To return to the default behavior, use the
(checkpoint-forced-goals nil).
Major Section: PROOF-TREE
See proof-tree for an introduction to proof trees, and for a list of related topics. Here we present some details not covered elsewhere.
1. When proof tree display is enabled (because the command
stop-proof-tree has not been executed, or has been superseded by a
start-proof-tree command), then time summaries will include
the time for proof tree display. This time includes the time spent
computing with proof trees, such as the pruning process described
briefly above. Even when proof trees are not displayed, such as
when their display is turned off in the middle of a proof, this time
will be printed if it is not 0.
2. When a goal is given a
:bye in a proof (see hints), it is
treated for the purpose of proof tree display just as though it had
been proved.
3. Several state global variables affect proof tree display.
(@ proof-tree-indent) is initially the string
"| ": it is
the string that is laid down the appropriate number of times to
effect indentation.
(@ proof-tree-buffer-width) is initially the
value of
(fmt-soft-right-margin state), and is used to prevent
printing of the annotation ``(forced ...)'' in any greater column
than this value. However,
(assign proof-tree-buffer-width nil)
to avoid any such suppression. Finally,
(@ checkpoint-processors) is a list of processors from the
constant list
*preprocess-clause-ledge*, together with
:induct. You may remove elements of
(@ checkpoint-processors)
to limit which processes are considered checkpoints.
4. When
otf-flg is not set to
t in a proof, and the prover then
decides to revert to the original goal and prove it by induction,
the proof tree display will reflect this fact as shown here:
c 0 | | Subgoal 2 PUSH (reverting)5.
Proof-tree display is turned off during calls of
6. The usual failure message is printed as part of the prooftree
display when a proof has failed.
Major Section: PROOF-TREE
See proof-tree for an introduction to proof trees, and for a list of related topics. Here we present a detailed example followed by a shorter example that illustrates proof by induction.
Consider the guard proof for the definition of a function
cancel_equal_plus; the body of this definition is of no importance
here. The first proof tree display is:
( DEFUN CANCEL_EQUAL_PLUS ...) 18 Goal preprocess | <18 subgoals>This is to be read as follows.
At this stage of the proof we have encountered the top-level goal, named "Goal", which generated 18 subgoals using the ``preprocess'' process. We have not yet begun to work on those subgoals.The corresponding message from the ordinary prover output is:
By case analysis we reduce the conjecture to the following 18 conjectures.Note that the field just before the name of the goal (
which here contains the number 18, indicates the number of cases
(children) created by the goal using the indicated process. This
number will remain unchanged as long as this goal is displayed.
The next proof tree display is:
( DEFUN CANCEL_EQUAL_PLUS ...) 18 Goal preprocess 1 | Subgoal 18 simp | | <1 subgoal> | <17 more subgoals>which indicates that at this point, the prover has used the simplification (``simp'') process on Subgoal 18 to create one subgoal (``<1 subgoal>''). The vertical bar (``|'') below ``Subgoal 18'', accompanied by the line below it, signifies that there are 17 siblings of Subgoal 18 that remain to be processed.
The next proof tree displayed is:
( DEFUN CANCEL_EQUAL_PLUS ...) 18 Goal preprocess 1 | Subgoal 18 simp c 2 | | Subgoal 18' ELIM | | | <2 subgoals> | <17 more subgoals>Let us focus on the fourth line of this display:
c 2 | | Subgoal 18' ELIMThe ``c'' field marks this goal as a ``checkpoint'', i.e., a goal worthy of careful scrutiny. In fact, any goal that creates children by a process other than ``preprocess'' or ``simp'' is marked as a checkpoint. In this case, the destructor-elimination (``ELIM'') process has been used to create subgoals of this goal. The indentation shows that this goal, Subgoal 18', is a child of Subgoal 18. The number ``2'' indicates that 2 subgoals have been created (by ELIM). Note that this information is consistent with the line just below it, which says ``<2 subgoals>''.
Finally, the last line of this proof tree display,
| <17 more subgoals>is connected by vertical bars (``|'') up to the string
"Subgoal 18", which suggests that there are 17 immediate
subgoals of Goal remaining to process after Subgoal 18. Note that
this line is indented one level from the second line, which is the
line for the goal named
"Goal". The display is intended to
suggest that the subgoals of Goal that remain to be proved consist
of Subgoal 18 together with 17 more subgoals.
The next proof tree display differs from the previous one only in that now, Subgoal 18' has only one more subgoal to be processed.
( DEFUN CANCEL_EQUAL_PLUS ...) 18 Goal preprocess 1 | Subgoal 18 simp c 2 | | Subgoal 18' ELIM | | | <1 more subgoal> | <17 more subgoals>Note that the word ``more'' in ``<1 more subgoal>'' tells us that there was originally more than one subgoal of Subgoal 18. In fact that information already follows from the line above, which (as previously explained) says that Subgoal 18' originally created 2 subgoals.
The next proof tree display occurs when the prover completes the proof of that ``1 more subgoal'' referred to above.
( DEFUN CANCEL_EQUAL_PLUS ...) 18 Goal preprocess | <17 more subgoals>Then, Subgoal 17 is processed and creates one subgoal, by simplification:
( DEFUN CANCEL_EQUAL_PLUS ...) 18 Goal preprocess 1 | Subgoal 17 simp | | <1 subgoal> | <16 more subgoals>... and so on.
Later in the proof one might find the following successive proof tree displays.
( DEFUN CANCEL_EQUAL_PLUS ...) 18 Goal preprocess | <9 more subgoals>These displays tell us that Subgoal 9 simplified to
18 Goal preprocess 0 | Subgoal 9 simp (FORCED) | <8 more subgoals>
t (note that
the ``0'' shows clearly that no subgoals were created), but that
some rule's hypotheses were forced. Although this goal is not
checkpointed (i.e., no ``c'' appears on the left margin), one can
cause such goals to be checkpointed;
see checkpoint-forced-goals.
In fact, the proof tree displayed at the end of the ``main proof'' (the 0-th forcing round) is as follows.
( DEFUN CANCEL_EQUAL_PLUS ...) 18 Goal preprocess 0 | Subgoal 9 simp (FORCED) 0 | Subgoal 8 simp (FORCED) 0 | Subgoal 7 simp (FORCED) 0 | Subgoal 6 simp (FORCED) 0 | Subgoal 4 simp (FORCED) 0 | Subgoal 3 simp (FORCED)This is followed by the following proof tree display at the start of the forcing round.
18 Goal preprocess 0 | Subgoal 9 simp (FORCED [1]Subgoal 4) 0 | Subgoal 8 simp (FORCED [1]Subgoal 6) 0 | Subgoal 7 simp (FORCED [1]Subgoal 1) 0 | Subgoal 6 simp (FORCED [1]Subgoal 3) 0 | Subgoal 4 simp (FORCED [1]Subgoal 5) 0 | Subgoal 3 simp (FORCED [1]Subgoal 2) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 6 [1]Goal FORCING-ROUND 2 | [1]Subgoal 6 preprocess | | <2 subgoals> | <5 more subgoals>This display shows which goals to ``blame'' for the existence of each goal in the forcing round. For example, Subgoal 9 is to blame for the creation of [1]Subgoal 4.
Actually, there is no real goal named
"[1]Goal". However, the
6 [1]Goal FORCING-ROUNDappears in the proof tree display to suggest a ``parent'' of the six top-level goals in that forcing round. As usual, the numeric field before the goal name contains the original number of children of that (virtual, in this case) goal -- in this case, 6.
In our example proof, Subgoal 6 eventually gets proved, without doing any further forcing. At that point, the proof tree display looks as follows.
( DEFUN CANCEL_EQUAL_PLUS ...) 18 Goal preprocess 0 | Subgoal 9 simp (FORCED [1]Subgoal 4) 0 | Subgoal 7 simp (FORCED [1]Subgoal 1) 0 | Subgoal 6 simp (FORCED [1]Subgoal 3) 0 | Subgoal 4 simp (FORCED [1]Subgoal 5) 0 | Subgoal 3 simp (FORCED [1]Subgoal 2) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 6 [1]Goal FORCING-ROUND | <5 more subgoals>Notice that the line for Subgoal 8,
0 | Subgoal 8 simp (FORCED [1]Subgoal 6)no longer appears. That is because the goal [1]Subgoal 6 has been proved, along with all its children; and hence, the proof of Subgoal 8 no longer depends on any further reasoning.
The final two proof tree displays in our example are as follows.
( DEFUN CANCEL_EQUAL_PLUS ...) 18 Goal preprocess 0 | Subgoal 7 simp (FORCED [1]Subgoal 1) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 6 [1]Goal FORCING-ROUND 2 | [1]Subgoal 1 preprocess 1 | | [1]Subgoal 1.1 preprocess 1 | | | [1]Subgoal 1.1' simp c 3 | | | | [1]Subgoal 1.1'' ELIM | | | | | <1 more subgoal>The explanation for the empty proof tree is simple: once [1]Subgoal 1.1.1 was proved, nothing further remained to be proved. In fact, the much sought-after ``Q.E.D.'' appeared shortly after the final proof tree was displayed.
Let us conclude with a final, brief example that illustrates proof by induction. Partway through the proof one might come across the following proof tree display.
( DEFTHM PLUS-TREE-DEL ...) 1 Goal preprocess 2 | Goal' simp c 0 | | Subgoal 2 PUSH *1 | | <1 more subgoal>This display says that in the attempt to prove a theorem called
plus-tree-del, preprocessing created the only child Goal' from Goal,
and Goal' simplified to two subgoals. Subgoal 2 is immediately
pushed for proof by induction, under the name ``*1''. In fact if
Subgoal 1 simplifies to
t, then we see the following successive
proof tree displays after the one shown above.
( DEFTHM PLUS-TREE-DEL ...) 1 Goal preprocess 2 | Goal' simp c 0 | | Subgoal 2 PUSH *1The separator ``+++++...'' says that we are beginning another trip through the waterfall. In fact this trip is for a proof by induction (as opposed to a forcing round), as indicated by the word ``INDUCT''. Apparently *1.6 was proved immediately, because it was not even displayed; a goal is only displayed when there is some work left to do either on it or on some goal that it brought (perhaps indirectly) into existence.
( DEFTHM PLUS-TREE-DEL ...) 1 Goal preprocess 2 | Goal' simp c 0 | | Subgoal 2 PUSH *1 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ c 6 *1 INDUCT | <5 more subgoals>
Once a proof by induction is completed, the ``PUSH'' line that refers to that proof is eliminated (``pruned''). So for example, when the present proof by induction is completed, the line
c 0 | | Subgoal 2 PUSH *1is eliminated, which in fact causes the lines above it to be eliminated (since they no longer refer to unproved children). Hence, at that point one might expect to see:
( DEFTHM PLUS-TREE-DEL ...) <<PROOF TREE IS EMPTY>>However, if the proof by induction of *1 necessitates further proofs by induction or a forcing round, then this ``pruning'' will not yet be done.
Major Section: PROOF-TREE
Also see proof-tree and see stop-proof-tree. Note that
:start-proof-tree works by removing
proof-tree from the
inhibit-output-lst; see set-inhibit-output-lst.
Proof tree displays are explained in the documentation for
:start-proof-tree causes proof tree display to be
turned on, once it has been turned off by
Do not attempt to invoke
start-proof-tree during an interrupt in the
middle of a proof.
Major Section: PROOF-TREE
Also see proof-tree and see start-proof-tree. Note that
:stop-proof-tree works by adding
proof-tree to the
inhibit-output-lst; see set-inhibit-output-lst.
Proof tree displays are explained in the documentation for
:Stop-proof-tree causes proof tree display to be
turned off.
It is permissible to submit the form
(stop-proof-tree) during a
break. Thus, you can actually turn off proof tree display in the
middle of a proof by interrupting ACL2 and submitting the form
(stop-proof-tree) in raw Lisp.


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Jean Enzle Hogan 86, of Wapakoneta, died at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday Nov. 8, 2011, at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital in St. Marys.
She was born Oct. 6, 1925, in Dayton, to Dorothy E. Evans and Maurice V. Bickel, who preceded her in death. On Oct. 19, 1946, she married B. C. Enzle who preceded her in death April 21, 1975 and later married Harold E. Hogan Oct. 17, 1987 and he preceded her in death May 16, 2006.
Survivors include a son Mark D. (Sally) Enzle of St. Marys, two granddaughters: Kate (Matthew) Maurer and Sarah (Ryan) Blanton; four great-grandchildren Jakob, Abigail, Mia and Gavin Blanton; and two daughters-in-law, Monique Enzle and Shirley Enzle.
She was preceded in death by a son Michael E. Enzle.
Mrs. Hogan had been a secretary for Roser Insurance. She was a member of Daughters of the Republic Sussanna Russell Chapter and former member of Salem United Methodist Church. She held an Associates degree from Miami Jacobs Business College.
Services are at 7 p.m. Friday at Salem United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Shawn Morris officiating.
Memorial contributions may be given to the Wapak Rescue Squad and condolences may be shared at bayliffandson.com


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Bon Jovi's New Single "Because We Can" Available At iTunes Today, Coinciding With Global Radio Launch!
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"Not Running Anymore" By Jon Bon Jovi Nominated For Golden Globe Award, From New Movie, Stand Up Guys
"Bon Jovi Because We Can - The Tour" Opens Feb. 9th
Jan 07, 2013, 07:00 EST
NEW YORK, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Bon Jovi's brand new single "Because We Can" blasts out to worldwide radio today at 7:00 a.m. (EST) and will be available on iTunes (http://smarturl.it/BecauseWeCan). "Because We Can" is the first single from WHAT ABOUT NOW, Bon Jovi's upcoming studio album, set for March 26th release on Island Records. "Because We Can" was written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and Billy Falcon. Additional songs will be available prior to the March 26th album release date, these tracks will be eligible for an iTunes "Complete My Album." The Official Bon Jovi App is available now for download: http://smarturl.it/BonJoviApp
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WHAT ABOUT NOW will feature an original Jon Bon Jovi song, "Not Running Anymore" from the new Lionsgate motion picture Stand Up Guys. The song has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. This is Jon's second nomination, after he first won the Golden Globe in 1990, for "Blaze of Glory" from Young Guns II. The Golden Globe Awards ceremony will be telecast live this Sunday, January 13th at 5:00 p.m. PT/8:00 p.m. ET on NBC.
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Feb. 9 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
10 Washington DC Verizon Center
13-14 Montreal, Que. Bell Centre
17-18 Toronto, Ont. Air Canada Centre
20 Kanata, Ont. Scotiabank Place
21 Pittsburgh, PA CONSOL Energy Center
27 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
March 1 Tampa, FL Tampa Bay Times Forum
2 Sunrise, FL BankAtlantic Center
5 Charlotte, NC Time Warner Cable Arena
6 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena
9 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena
10 Columbus, OH Nationwide Arena
13 St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center
14 Louisville, KY KFC Yum! Center
16 Oklahoma City, OK Chesapeake Energy Arena
17 Lubbock, TX United Spirit Arena
April 2 Calgary, Alb. Scotiabank Saddledome
3 Edmonton, Alb. Rexall Place
5 Winnipeg, Alb. MTS Centre
7 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
10 Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center
11 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
13 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
14 Des Moines, IA Wells Fargo Arena
16 Denver, CO Pepsi Center
17 Salt Lake City, UT EnergySolutions Arena
19 Los Angeles, CA STAPLES Center
20 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena
23 Glendale, AZ Jobing.com Arena
25 San Jose, NJ HP Pavilion at San Jose
July 12 Chicago, IL Soldier Field
18 Detroit, MI Ford Field
20 Foxboro, MA Gillette Stadium
24-25 East Rutherford, NJ MetLife Stadium
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Memphis, TN
Milwaukee, WI
Philadelphia, PA
Portland, OR
Raleigh, NC
San Antonio, TX
Seattle, WA
State College, PA
Vancouver, BC
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HARTSVILLE, SC – North Georgia ran past Coker for a 6-1 victory Saturday afternoon in men's collegiate soccer. The Cobras drop to 1-10-1 on the season, while NGC improves to 12-3-2 overall.
Coker played fairly well in the first period but the Saints put two on the board, starting with a goal from Jeremy Bouasy in the 17th minute. Aaron Snyder made it 2-0 in the 31st minute and that's where the score remained until the break.
In the second half Bouasy struck again in the 51st minute, getting past the keeper with a shot fake and then tapping a shot in for the 3-0 advantage. Jonathan Cueva tallied in the 61st and Kenny MacKenzie made it 5-0 in seven minutes later. North Georgia put their final goal in at 72:17 when Rene Alverez beat keeper Brent Washburn with a driven shot to the near post.
The Cobras got their lone goal in the 76th minute on a great run from sophomore Sean Maupin/Lexington, SC. Maupin took the ball nearly 60 yards, beating several defenders on the way, and cut the ball back in front of the goal from the touch line. His pass found its way past the keeper and to freshman Gabe Olvera/Greenwood, SC, who was racing through the box. Olvera tapped the ball in for his first career goal and prevented the shut out.
North Georgia out-shot the Cobras 11-3 and held a 9-1 advantage on corner kicks. Junior Brent Washburn/Barnwell, SC got the start in goal and made six saves in defeat.
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Roy Halladay pitched six innings of one-hit ball and Chase Utley and Ryan Howard hit upper-deck solo homers off Wandy Rodriguez, but Mike Adams (1-2) couldn't protect an eighth-inning lead.
Pedro Alvarez hit a solo homer off Antonio Bastardo in the seventh and his RBI single in the fourth was the only hit off Halladay.
Rodriguez remained unbeaten over 11 starts since Aug. 29, 2012. The left-hander was nearly untouchable in his first three starts, allowing just one earned run and five hits in 16 innings. He allowed three runs and nine hits in 5 2-3 innings, but Pittsburgh's hitters bailed him out.
Halladay struck out eight and walked two in his third consecutive strong start after two awful ones.
Vin Mazzaro (1-0) retired the four batters he faced to earn the win. Mark Melancon worked the eighth and Jason Grilli finished for his ninth save in nine tries.
Down 3-2, the Pirates came back against Adams in the eighth.
Pinch hitter Jose Tabata walked to start the inning and Starling Marte reached on an infield single. Travis Snider failed to get a bunt down, but then lined a tying RBI single. Andrew McCutchen walked to load the bases.
Jeremy Horst replaced Adams and allowed an RBI single to Inge that put the Pirates up 4-3. Horst then retired Neil Walker on a home-to-first double-play grounder to first baseman Howard.
Marte hit a bloop triple off Utley's glove in shallow right to make it 5-3 in the ninth.
After Jimmy Rollins was thrown out by McCutchen trying to stretch a hit into a double in the first, Utley drove a 1-0 pitch into the second deck in right field for the Phillies' first homer off a lefty this season.
Utley batted second for the first time this year as manager Charlie Manuel mixed up his lineup after a 2-0 loss. Michael Young moved into Utley's No. 3 spot.
Halladay got into two-out trouble in the fourth after walking Garrett Jones and hitting Walker with a pitch. Alvarez, just 9 for 61 to that point, then singled in a run.
Howard drove an 0-2 pitch several rows deep into the second deck in right field to give the Phillies a 2-1 lead in the fourth. The 435-foot blast was only Howard's second homer.
Rodriguez retired the first two batters in the sixth before Ben Revere reached on an infield single. Humberto Quintero followed with a single and pinch-hitter Kevin Frandsen's RBI single made it 3-1.
The Phillies squandered several opportunities.
They had runners on second and third with one out in the fourth, but Revere popped out. After an intentional walk, Halladay struck out.
It was first and third with no outs in the fifth after Rollins led off with a double and Utley put down a perfect drag bunt. But Young hit into a second-to-home double play because Rollins initially held up on a sharp bouncer to left and then broke for the plate.
Halladay, coming off an injury-plagued, subpar season, raised concerns when he struggled this spring and then allowed 12 runs and 12 hits in 7 1-3 innings in his first two starts. But two-time Cy Young Award winner appears to be back to his old form. He has a 1.71 ERA in his last three starts.
NOTES: Young was 0 for 4 to snap his 14-game hitting streak. ... Halladay is 4-1 with a 1.04 ERA in seven career starts against Pittsburgh. ... Phillies OF Delmon Young will continue his rehab assignment at Triple-A Lehigh Valley on Thursday. Young, who had ankle surgery, is playing right field after being a designated hitter for Detroit last year. ... Phillies C Carlos Ruiz will play for Double-A Reading on Friday and Saturday before joining the team in New York on Sunday when he's eligible to be activated following a 25-game suspension. ... Philadelphia's Cliff Lee (2-1, 2.83 ERA) faces James McDonald (2-2, 4.12) when the teams wrap up the four-game series on Thursday afternoon.


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TORONTO — Matt Moulson and the Islanders needed a little time to get up to full speed.
The forward scored twice in his 248th straight NHL game, helping the Islanders overcame an early two-goal deficit in a 7-4 victory over the Maple Leafs Thursday night.
"I had a bunch of chances the last couple of games, but couldn't get anything to go in," Moulson said. "I just have to keep whacking away in front of the net. A lot of credit to my linemates for working hard and creating chances for me."
Moulson, in his fifth NHL season and fourth with the Islanders, has yet to miss a game with the Isles. Only Billy Harris (576 games), Bob Nystrom (301) and Denis Potvin (262) have played in more consecutive contests in club history.
The Islanders (2-1) trailed 3-1 after the first period, but gained momentum by killing off a late two-man disadvantage. After tying it with two goals in the second, they took control by scoring four times in the third in the opener of a five-game, eight-day trip.
"Killing that [5-on-3] penalty when we were down 3-1 late in the first period, you could look at that as a turning point for us," said Islanders forward Brad Boyes, who had a goal against his former team. "If they get one there, it's probably a much different game."
The Leafs (2-2) fell to 0-2 on home ice this season and returned to the Air Canada Centre following a solid 5-2 road victory in Pittsburgh on Wednesday night. But that didn't impress some among the ACC gathering of 19,125 who began chanting "Let's go Blue Jays!" with 2:40 remaining.
"I think we saw one team last night and a totally different team tonight," Leafs coach Randy Carlyle said. "We were out of it, we were out of sync.
"I thought the first period was more a shinny period of hockey. We were skating but we weren't really engaged in the game. We managed to get a 3-1 lead out of it but really the last 7, 8 minutes of the first period was the start of the way we finished the game."
Toronto was 0-for-5 on the power play, going 0-for-2 with two-man advantages for a combined 52 seconds.
"It's huge, it usually comes back to haunt you," Carlyle said. "It you don't score on your 5-on-3 at some point in the game usually momentum is going to turn in favor of the opposition.
"They get life from it and it sucks life from you."
Michael Grabner also had two goals for the Islanders, and Mark Streit and Keith Aucoin added goals.
Carl Gunnarsson, Nazem Kadri, Mikhail Grabovski and Matt Frattin scored for the Maple Leafs.
Grabner gave the Isles a 4-3 lead at 3:27 of the third, firing a wrist shot past Ben Scrivens for his second of the season before Aucoin scored his first just 1:08 later to put the Islanders ahead 5-3. That was it for Scrivens, who allowed five goals on 20 shots in his third start of the season.
"I was seeing the puck well and in good position," Scrivens said. "Sometimes those things happen.
"You just have to focus on the process and keep playing games the way I feel I can and should play. It's a journey … it's the only way you can look at it. It's another learning experience and it's a tough one to swallow but I'll take what I can from it."
Scrivens was replaced by James Reimer, who got the win in Pittsburgh. But Reimer was beaten cleanly by Moulson on a wrist shot at 11:20 for his second.
The Islanders were playing for the first time since beating Tampa Bay 4-3 on Monday night. They are in Boston tonight for the first of their seven back-to-back sets this season.


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"It was a lot of fun," he said, describing how he climbed the hills with his friends, or visited his grandmother and collected the comic books that the bookstore had thrown out after ripping their front covers off. "I'd grab a whole pile."
Bailey was born in Moab. His father's family originally homesteaded in Monticello during the early 1900s but found life in Monticello to be too hard, so they moved to Moab. His mother's family helped settle Moab.
Bailey's family moved to California when he was a year old, but they returned to the area by the time he was in the first grade. Aside from attending college in Salt Lake City, Bailey has called Moab his home ever since.
As a teenager, Bailey was never bored. His mother worked for the state employment service in town, so from the time he was 14, Bailey said he always had work lined up for him.
"I did some of the worst jobs here," he said. "I could never tell her that I didn't have a job."
After graduating high school, Bailey moved to Salt Lake City to attend the University of Utah, where he worked toward a degree in behavioral psychology. His wife Carrie went with him.
"We were childhood sweethearts," he said.
The couple moved back to Moab full-time in 1971.
"After spending time in college and coming back here all the time, we preferred Moab to any other place," Bailey said. Bailey worked a variety of jobs over the following years. He did a brief stint as a teacher, as well as spending several years as a purchasing agent for Atlas Minerals.
"I worked there until the uranium industry went flat in 1983," he said.
Though there was good money in the mining industry, it was always up and down, he said.
"You never knew when it was going to collapse," he said.
He said the tourist industry has proved to be a more stable economy for the area.
After the uranium bust, Bailey and current Moab Mayor David Sakrison started a video rental store.
"We liked movies," he said. "When we visited our friends we'd watch videos."
VHS tapes were just beginning to break into the market, so Bailey decided to take advantage of the new technology. Unfortunately, not many people in Moab had VCRs at the time.
"I ended up selling more VCRs and TVs than anything," he said.
Bailey kept the store for about 10 years. Then he and Carrie bought some apartment buildings and went into the lodging business, an enterprise they continued for the next 20 years.
Bailey has also been actively involved in the city government for more than 25 years.
"I've always been interested in the future of the town," he said.
He first threw his hat into the political ring when he ran for mayor against former Moab Mayor Tom Stocks. Although Bailey was not elected, Stocks encouraged him to take an open seat on the Moab City Planning Commission.
"We didn't always see eye-to-eye," Bailey said. "On planning issues and the future of Moab, we were in complete harmony, and that was our common bond."
Bailey is now semi-retired, however, he and Carrie have found new ways to remain busy. They have taken up a new hobby – beekeeping. They are also enjoying spending time with their grandchildren.


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MWF Seeking BFF by Rachel Bertsche chronicles the attempt by Bertsche to make new close girlfriends in her adopted hometown of Chicago. After moving there for a relationship, she found herself without any close friends like those she had growing up, in college, and in New York City. She decides to spend a year focusing on making new friends, with the goal of making 4-5 close, good friends. She starts going on "girl dates" every week. Finding how she meets these people, attempts conversation, and learns about what makes a good friend is interesting, sometimes awkward, and often sweet. Her desire to really, truly have a new best friend is often her biggest downfall; people can sense the desperation.
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Raburn, coming off back-to-back two-homer games, drove in two runs with a single in the third and a double in the fifth. He has 12 hits in his last 14 at-bats, a stretch that began Sunday, while totaling four homers, nine RBIs and five runs scored in the last four games.
The Indians have won a season-high four straight games in which they have outscored their opponents 39-5.
Bauer (1-1), called up from Triple-A Columbus before the game, walked six while striking out five and combined with four relievers for the shutout.
Cliff Lee, pitching against the Indians for the first time since Cleveland dealt him to Philadelphia during the 2009 season, allowed five runs in six innings. Lee (2-2) has given up 13 runs and 26 hits in 18 innings in his last three starts.
Raburn, who was 2 for 19 with seven strikeouts in his career against Lee coming in, singled in the second when the Indians took a 1-0 lead on Mike Aviles' sacrifice fly. Raburn's infield hit in the third capped Cleveland's three-run rally and his RBI double in the fifth gave the Indians a five-run lead. He added a bloop single in the seventh off Jeremy Horst. While fans were chanting his name in the eighth inning, Raburn struck out against Phillippe Aumont.
Raburn has taken advantage of increased playing time due to injuries to Nick Swisher and Michael Bourn. Over his last seven games, Raburn is batting .500 (15 for 30).
Asdrubal Cabrera had a two-run double in the third while Michael Brantley had three hits.
Bauer was likely making a spot start as the Indians needed an extra starter because of a rainout last week. The right-hander, who walked seven in five innings in his first start against Tampa Bay on April 6, didn't allow a hit until Domonic Brown's two-out single in the fourth. Raburn took an extra base hit away from Ryan Howard with a catch at the wall in right field earlier in the inning.
Bauer walked the first two hitters in the fifth, but retired Jimmy Rollins, Michael Young and Chase Utley to end the inning.
Cleveland was the only team Lee hadn't faced in his career. Lee won the AL Cy Young Award with the Indians in 2008, going 22-3 with a 2.54 ERA. Cleveland also defeated Roy Halladay, another former Cy Young winner, on Tuesday.
The Indians' third-inning rally was keyed by three infield hits. The inning began on a bunt hit by Brantley, followed by a walk to Jason Kipnis. Cabrera doubled past third base to score both runners. Mark Reynolds' hit to deep shortstop moved Cabrera to third. After Carlos Santana struck out, Raburn hit a slow roller that third baseman Michael Young had no play on and Cabrera scored.
Lee got a boost from his defense when right fielder Laynce Nix robbed Drew Stubbs of a home run with a leaping catch at the wall in the fourth.
Swisher missed his second straight game because of a sore left shoulder.
Delmon Young started at designated hitter for the second straight game for the Phillies. Manager Charlie Manuel planned on playing Young in right field, but he was struck on his throwing elbow by a pitch from Zach McAllister on Tuesday. Making his season debut in that game, Young homered in his first-bat.
NOTES: Phillies OF Ben Revere had a seventh-inning single, but remains in a 4-for-28 slump. On the season, he is batting .204 with one extra-base hit and five walks in 100 plate appearances. ... Manuel said Delmon Young will be limited to pinch-hitting when the Phillies open a four-game series at home against Miami on Thursday. ... Cabrera, the Indians' everyday shortstop, was the DH while Aviles started at short. ... OF Michael Bourn (lacerated finger) remains sidelined and there's no timetable for his return. ... RHP Brett Myers (sore elbow) will be re-evaluated during the weekend and could be cleared to begin a throwing program. ... The Indians made room for Bauer on their 25-man roster by optioning LHP Nick Hagadone to Triple-A Columbus. Hagadone went 0-0 with a 2.45 ERA in eight relief appearances.


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Sports fan: Unionize college sports?
Will a "bandwagon effect" rumble its way across the country and draw in other private (and perhaps public) universities whose football players feel they need more benefits and protections than they're now receiving, such as wider insurance coverage?
Or is the decision announced by the National Labor Relations Board in March a one-time-only phenomenon that will be discussed in college boardrooms all over the country and then forgotten.
Right now, no one is quite sure about the potential impact of Northwestern's football players' successful bid to unionize. Additional cost to schools? Tax consequences? Title IX concerns? What if the women's volleyball team wants to unionize? Or the basketball team? Are athletes really "employees" of this university, or any university, for that matter? If they are, how about the average student who represents his or her college in clubs and associations and other activities on campus?
What, in fact, would happen if all of the Wildcats' teams wanted to unionize? Currently, many athletes attending the school are on scholarship, which means their tuition, books and other major school expenses are paid for.
And, since Title IX requires schools (high schools included) to give male and female athletes equal treatment, some fear that the school could be forced to come up against the Supreme Court in negotiations.
While the decision to unionize could be reversed, during the interim, many in higher education are worried about the many ramifications of unionization. At many schools, Oregon State and Oregon included, major sports' athletes are already treated well, eating high quality team meals together, enjoying all the benefits that come with participation in sports' programs at the NCAA Division I level.
In any event, Northwestern is squeezing into unchartered territory, which even College Athlete Players Association President Ramogi Huma said leaves a number of unanswered questions. Huma and CAPA co-founder Kain Colter traveled to Washington to meet with members of Congress to discuss the decision and other issues regarding unionizing college athletic teams.
Huma probably created a few concerns when he said that although many of CAPA's proposed changes would not go head-to-head with current NCAA rules, some of the organization's goals would require rule changes. However, Huma emphasized that players would not ask the university for any benefits that would lead to violations.
For one, although I belonged to an association (okay, okay, both the Oregon Education Association and National Education Association are labor unions), I don't agree with the decision to unionize football players at any university, let alone Northwestern. They're already paid in large part. For example, an athletic scholarship at a major college has been estimated to be worth from $20,000 annually to $120,000.
The $120,000 figure includes the benefits of coaching, academic counseling, strength and conditioning consulting, media relations assistance, medical insurance and treatment, free game tickets and future earnings power, At Butler University, a private college in Indianapolis, Indiana, the benefits derived annually from an athletic scholarship are projected at $42,278, which includes tuition, board, room and fees.
So, what, in addition to wider insurance coverage, more clout at the bargaining table and a few other perks, are Northwestern football players going to derive from the recent decision to unionize and be considered university employees? Are they seeking, in the long run, in addition to basic scholarships, salaries and corporate benefits (remember, these are 18-22 year-old adults who are receiving a "free" education), which could result in large budget cuts in other line items, or entire programs, or do they merely want some sort of protection from career-ending athletic injuries (concussions, serious joint injuries)?
Or, do they intend, as some of the opponents of unionization feel, to grab the brass ring and earn more and more benefits while they're still in school?
This is a hot-potato item to which all college sports fans should stay tuned.
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ROME — The Pontifical North American College is heading to the Clericus Cup soccer finals after a 2-0 win against the Mater Ecclesiae seminary on Saturday.
The May 12 final playoff will be the third for the NAC Martyrs, who have yet to win the coveted clerical hat- and cleat-wearing soccer ball trophy. The NAC finished second in 2009 and 2010, and third in 2008.
At the Saturday game, British-born Mark Paver of the Archdiocese of New York was the first to score after just 11′ of play.
Deacon David Santos of the Archdiocese of Newark manned the goal and kept the opposing team from getting anything past the net. Bomber, Scottie Gratton of the Diocese of Burlington nabbed the NAC's second goal securing the win.
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Aislynn Marie O'Brien, 2 months, passed away Sept. 29 in Oklahoma.Born July 26, she was the infant daughter of Lisa Degilio and Patrick O'Brien IV.In the short time with us, Aislynn was truly the light of our life, our little angel.Also surviving are two brothers, Collin and Trevor Griffiths; two sisters, Brooke and Kayla O'Brien; maternal grandparents, Nick and Joan Degilio; paternal grandparents, Alex and Page Schaufele; aunts and uncles, Bob and Meghan Degilio, Bronley and Celeste Wales, Kelly Ervin, Jo Strenko, and Joe Schaufele; cousins, Kelsey Rivera, Miranda and Kendall Wales, Madison and Taylor Degilio.Aislynn joined her cousins in heaven, Jason and Tyler Degilio.A funeral service will be held at noon Tuesday at Countryside Community Church, Clarks Summit, Pa.,with services by the Rev. Dr. J.P. Duncan, pastor. Interment will be in Milwaukee Cemetery.Friends may visit from 10 a.m. until time of service at the church.In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Countryside Community Church or St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.Arrangements are entrusted to the care of the Lawrence E. Young Funeral Home, Clarks Summit. To send an online condolence visit www.lawrenceeyoungfuneralhome.com.


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If our lawmakers passed a law saying that green-eyed people could no longer vote, wouldn't we be incensed? All green-eyed people would rise up in protest, and I among them. There would be demonstrations in the streets. Yet many of us, who are eligible to vote, will never go near the polls on Election Day. The turnout for Grant County for our primary election was only around 25 percent.
How many have heard if you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all?
While this may be an antiquated notion by younger generations, it applies to those working for and with the public.
There is NEVER any reason for a public official or public employee to curse or name call.
At a recent fiscal court caucus meeting, heated discussion took place over operations at the Grant County Animal Shelter.
It's no secret that I like a good corndog and funnel cake and some of the best of both can be found at the county fair and even better ones can be found at the state fair.
I went to the state fair this year along with a host of Grant County 4-H ham project kids and their parents.
Grant County was well represented as the 4-H kids brought home many blue and red ribbons in only their first year of country ham competition.
Other Grant County 4-Hers and adults earned ribbons for photography, sewing, baking, art work, showing animals etc.
I'm probably the only person in this county that feels this way, but in my humble opinion, the Grant County Animal Shelter is taking itself a bit too seriously.
Now, I care as much as anyone about animals. All my life I have cared for and been surrounded by a whole host of animals. But with this comes a dose of common sense. To have a pet, you have to be able to accommodate it and it fit to your needs, etc.
There is a segment of the U.S. population cheerleading in favor of the ground zero mosque. One must ask, why? Imam Rauf says that it is for reconciliation. Really! Mohammed teaches that it is fine to lie to an infidel if it promotes Islam. I do not believe him. Why does he call it "The Cordoba Project?" When Islam defeated Christian Spain, the third largest mosque in the world was erected in Cordoba, Spain, to signify Islams victory over Christianity.
When you are a kid, you don't realize how quick life is. You want to make sure you don't miss out on anything, especially when you have someone special in your life.
Last week, I was covering the sporting events on Sept. 18, looking forward to a big moment that evening at Oktoberfest in Cincinnati, my proposal to my girlfriend Jessica Lynn Purnell.
For two weeks I had the ring stashed away waiting for that special Saturday. It seemed like an eternity to get here.
I have been searching the latest editions of the Grant County News expecting to see an article on the passing of a resolution of support for the State of Arizona by the Grant County Fiscal Court. In this resolution the citizens of Grant County expressed their approval of the Arizona law that allows the local police to check the immigration status of people who are guilty of a criminal offense and gives the officer a reason to suspect they are not in this country legally.
The world is coming to visit! Are we ready?
Beginning Sept. 25, running through Oct. 10, there will be thousands and thousands of travelers traveling through Grant County, on their way to the World Equestrian Games. If you think that won't affect us, you're wrong. People have to eat, people have to get gas, people have to spend the night somewhere. Checking with our local hotel and motel managers, I have found, they are getting lots of reservations for these dates. The Georgetown hotels are already totally booked. So that means our hotels will soon follow suit.
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A New York state appellate court ruled Grooveshark can be held liable for copyright infringement for pre-1972 songs uploaded by users.
A New York state appellate court ruled Tuesday that Gainesville-based Grooveshark can be held liable for copyright infringement under state law for pre-1972 songs uploaded by users to its online music streaming service.
The ruling has possible widespread implications for Internet service providers.
The decision reverses the July 10, 2012, ruling by New York Supreme Court Judge Barbara Kapnick denying Universal Music Group's motion to dismiss Grooveshark parent company Escape Media Group's defense in a state copyright lawsuit.
Grooveshark plans to appeal that decision to the state court of appeals, New York's highest court.
Grooveshark contends that it is protected under the safe harbor provision of the 1998 Digital Millenium Copyright Act. The DMCA says Internet service providers cannot be held liable for copyright violations of content posted by users as long as they remove the content once notified by the copyright owners.
However, the appellate court agreed with Universal's contention that the DMCA does not apply to pre-1972 recordings since Congress in 1971 extended federal copyright protection only to recordings "fixed" on Feb. 15, 1972 or after and the DMCA did not expressly spell out that it applied to older songs. That left in place state copyright protections for older songs, hence Universal filed its lawsuit in state court.
"The Court's decision, if it stands, will significantly undermine the safe harbor protections of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and may severely disrupt the operations of all Internet service providers who, like Grooveshark, permit access to user-generated music content," Grooveshark attorney John Rosenberg said in a prepared statement. "As a result, Grooveshark intends to appeal the court's decision and to seek legislative action on this critical issue, not only for its own interests but for the industry as a whole."
In its ruling, the state appellate court disagreed with a 2011 federal court ruling in Capitol Records vs. MP3tunes that the DMCA applies to pre-1972 recordings.
Internet service providers, including Grooveshark, argue that the intent of the DMCA is to foster fast and robust development of the Internet. Excluding pre-1972 recordings would thwart that intent by spawning legal uncertainty and forcing providers to verify the copyright date of each song, a prohibitively costly and time-consuming process.
In the appellate court ruling, Judge J.P. Mazzarelli noted the conflict in interpreting the intent of the copyright law and DMCA, writing, "it would be far more appropriate for Congress, if necessary, to amend the DMCA to clarify its intent, than for this court to do so by fiat."
If Grooveshark loses on appeal, Universal still would have to prove copyright infringement. Grooveshark's countersuit that Universal interfered with its business dealings still stands.
The company also is facing a separate pending federal suit filed by Universal that contends Grooveshark's management knowingly uploaded copyrighted songs themselves and directed employees to do the same. Universal has been joined in the suit by Warner Bros., Sony and other music labels.


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March 22nd: Nestle Smarties
Kcal 175 Fat 6.5g Fat(sats) 3.7
The Easter bunny isnt supposed to be making his official visit until tommorow but I was a lucky boy and was the reciever of a Smarties Easter Egg today from a kind relative.
Included in this Easter Egg pack were the standard chocolate egg that is included with all Cadburys Eggs this Easter and also two hexatube packs of Nestle Smarties. Tossing the chocolate egg to the side (no time for generic chocolate eggs this year round people!) I opened my first tube of Smarties for a good ten years :) smell??...distinctly lacking - no aroma worth mentioning aside from a slightly sweet smell.
One quick note is that the packaging claims that there is no artifical colourings or flavors...honestly thats a tad puzzling considering the colours these come in!? The blue colour is back!? does anyone care lol not me. Despite the meaningless package claim theres no doubting that they look great, natraul - no? appertising - kinda...intresting and different - definately.
Anyone whose been reading Chocolate Mission thus far will know that sugary shelled products havent been amongst the most highgly rated. I generally find them very artifical tasting (they genereally are!) and many of these products have been too dominated by these overpowering sweet flavours - not a good omen for a product that describes itself as 'milk chocolate in a crisp sugar shell'.
Smarties come in seven colours - all of which are the same in taste with the orange colour aside which has a slight orangey twang to it. Plently of nostalgic feelings quickly filled me as I emptied the contents of one the hexatubes into a bowl - the colours look amazing and although you know they all generally taste the same you cant help but match up your favourite colours and pick out the orange ones - great fun :D
After finally finishing fiddling around playing around matching up the colours (oh come on I cant be the only one) I finally got round to eating them :) Although slightly wary of the sugary shells I really quite enjoyed their presence in the product. The shells are far thinner than their M&M counterparts but still added a nice crispy bite to the product. Their thiness meant that they did not dominate the flavour and the milk chocolate quickly presented itself to the tastebuds and established itself as the dominant ingredient.
Chocolatewise Smarties are rather indifferent, their small size nature meant that whilst the chocolate is not overpowered its not a particularly strong flavour - that being said the blend of the shells and chocolate is overly pleasent and a single tube (38g) is a more than adequete serving size.
The orange Smarties although not plentiful in number (I only got two in a whole pack grrr!) are pleasent and the orange taste is a nice element to throw into the mix - why arent there tubes with just Orange smarties!? I guess this must have been done in some Limited edition capacity already??
Overall theres no doubting Smarties look great in appearance and im sure they probably bring back tons of great childhood memories for many a person. This aside though Smarties are a product that are never going to win any prizes in terms of taste. They are one of those products that are never going to offer an overly differential flavour extravaganza but if its a great looking nostalgic bringing chocolate experience your after, you can go little wrong with Smarties.
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"Accountability" and "Patriot Act" were produced for the Bush campaign by Maverick Media. To watch the ads on the Bush campaign Web site, click here. For transcripts, click
To: William Saletan
From: Jacob Weisberg
The Bush line on Al Gore was that the 2000 Democratic nominee had a habit of fibbing and exaggerating. There wasn't much substance to this charge, but through repetition, it stuck. This time, the president is trying to undermine John Kerry in a similar way, with a slightly different accusation—that Kerry talks out of both sides of his mouth. I'm afraid there's a bit more substance to this criticism. The classic expression of the Gore charge was "I invented the Internet" (which Gore never really said). The killer Kerry quote is, "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it" (which Kerry really did say).
These new Bush ads try to bolster the Kerry's-a-weasel thesis in relation to two pieces of legislation, the Patriot Act and the president's "No Child Left Behind" education reform bill. The first ad, "Patriot Act," contends that after voting for the antiterrorism law, Kerry changed his positions because of liberal pressure (with surprising restraint, it avoids the term "ACLU"). The second ad, "Accountability," which is in Spanish, asserts that Kerry voted for Bush's ed bill but now opposes it because of pressure from the teachers unions. From the GOP perspective, the beauty of these spots, which have no special artistry, is that they zing Kerry both on sensitive issues and on character. If you don't buy the insinuation that Kerry is not to be trusted, you may accept the line that his positions are too "liberal." If you don't object to his positions, you may still find him devious. And if the ads really work their magic, you'll come away thinking Kerry is dangerously liberal and personally untrustworthy.
How fair are the specific charges? Kerry has indeed been inconsistent on the Patriot Act. Along with every Democratic senator except Russ Feingold, he voted for it in 2001, arguing that it was a tool prosecutors needed to fight terrorism. During the primaries, Kerry said he was unhappy with the bill and wanted to replace it with a new law. You can't prove that Kerry moved in this direction because of liberal pressure, as the ad claims, but it's a reasonable surmise. Kerry has specifically criticized only two aspects of the law. One is the library provision that liberal groups have been most vocal in protesting—but that Dahlia Lithwick and Julia Turner, in a dispassionate analysis for Slate, found to be among the less significant and troubling. Democrats seldom hesitate to attribute Bush's turns and twitches to pressure from the religious right or corporate lobbyists. He's doing no worse to Kerry.
On the other hand, the Bushies, in their factual backup for the ad, don't provide any evidence for the charge that Kerry wants to repeal provisions of the Patriot Act dealing with subpoenas, wiretaps, and surveillance, or that he'd give law-enforcement agents fewer powers to spy on terrorists than on drug dealers and mobsters. Kerry has been deliberately vague about how he'd change the law, suggesting that he mainly wants more judicial oversight and that his concern is the use of antiterrorism laws in ordinary criminal cases.
In responding to the ad, Kerry tries to justify his apparent change of heart in two ways. The first is by saying that he isn't against the Patriot Act per se, just that he doesn't like the way John Ashcroft has applied it. That's as specious as his subsequent defense of his vote on the Iraq War resolution: that he never imagined Bush would actually go to war with Iraq. C'mon. He's John Ashcroft. Kerry knew what the bill said and whom he was handing the power to. Kerry also never quite says how, exactly, Ashcroft has abused or misinterpreted the law. Kerry's second defense—that he doesn't really want to repeal the Patriot Act, merely to fine-tune it—is pretty weak as well. Kerry says he would keep 95 percent of the law's provisions. You could keep 95 percent of the Constitution and lose the Bill of Rights.
In sum, if Kerry hasn't done the full back-flip Bush claims on the Patriot Act, he's wormed and pandered around it enough to justify the shot.
On the education bill, Bush's distortions are similar, as are Kerry's vulnerabilities. In "Accountability," the narrator asserts that after voting in favor of No Child Left Behind, "under pressure from education unions, Kerry has changed his mind." It's true that Kerry has tried to have it both ways on the issue, pandering to the education lobby by implying that he's against NCLB without ever saying he'd get rid of it. His Web site claims he "would fight to change" the law and that he has criticized Bush for signing it without funding it. But Kerry has never come out against No Child Left Behind, so the claim that he has reversed himself amounts to an exaggeration.
Will, I'd say these ads demonstrate the two most significant hallmarks of the presidential campaign thus far: Kerry's hedging and Bush's dishonesty.
To: Jacob Weisberg
From: William Saletan
I guess somebody's got to defend the difference between worming and pandering, of which Kerry is guilty, and back-flipping, of which he isn't. I'll try.
Kerry explained his shifts on these two issues in a pair of speeches he delivered last fall. Here's what he said on Dec. 1, 2003:
I voted for the Patriot Act right after Sept. 11 … It had a number of flaws—but this wasn't the time to haggle. It was the time to act. But George Bush and John Ashcroft abused the spirit of national action after the terrorist attacks. … While the Administration assures us that some of these things [abuses of the Act] have not occurred, no one feels comfortable with these possibilities. It doesn't take a cynic to wonder about how far George Bush and John Ashcroft will go.
I find this explanation fascinating. Remember, this is prepared text. Kerry gave plenty of thought to the choice of words. There was a "time to act," and later there was a "time to haggle." This is Kerry's essence: He wants to act but always has caveats to haggle about. How does he choose which to do? By putting his finger on the zeitgeist. Sept. 11 was a "time to act," to suspend caveats. Two years later, with Howard Dean eating Kerry's lunch in the primaries, it was "time to haggle."
Do changes in policy, rather than changes in politics, account for Kerry's shift? You, Dahlia, and Julia make a good case that they don't. So does Kerry, inadvertently. His protestations about policy shifts by Bush and Ashcroft are practically self-refuting. He accuses Bush and Ashcroft of abusing "the spirit of national action," not the substance of the Patriot Act. Translation: They used no more power than Kerry gave them. All he can validly say is that they abused the "spirit" in which he gave them the power. This, as you point out, is the same complaint he always makes about the Iraq war resolution: that Bush abused the spirit of Kerry's supportive vote. It's comforting morally, but not politically. A president hands out powers and policies, not intentions. We've already got one who makes well-intentioned decisions with bad consequences. We don't need another.
Unable to document abuse of the Act, Kerry pleads that the mere "possibilities" of such abuse are too troubling. "It doesn't take a cynic to wonder about how far George Bush and John Ashcroft will go," he says. Evidently, however, it takes more than Kerry to wonder how far Bush and Ashcroft will go, since he voted for the Act knowing that they'd administer it. "Possibilities" are what a legislator is supposed to think through before he votes for a bill. The "possibilities" in the Patriot Act didn't change between 2001 and 2003. In short, the language in which Kerry argues that his shift wasn't political suggests strongly that, in fact, it was.
Was his shift on No Child Left Behind political, too? The only authoritative source the Bush campaign cites for this claim is Ron Brownstein of the Los Angeles Times, who wrote on April 5, 2004, "Pressured by rival Howard Dean's denunciations of the act and the unwavering opposition from groups representing teachers and school administrators, Kerry retreated from his [2003] book's powerful demand for accountability. Instead, he reversed himself to insist that schools be judged not only on outputs—their success in improving student performance—but inputs as well, such as whether teachers and students show up regularly."
But, wait a minute. What exactly did Kerry say in his book? Here's the passage Brownstein quotes: "It bothers me that some Democrats have resisted the idea of making educational outcomes—the skills and knowledge our kids obtain from the educational system—as important as educational inputs—the adequate funding, the good facilities and the higher teacher pay we all want." And what position did Kerry retreat to? According to Brownstein, "Rather than judging schools on whether they improve student proficiency in reading and math, [Kerry said] they should also be measured by other indicators, like graduation rates, teacher attendance and parental satisfaction."
Call me a Kerry shill, but I don't see the contradiction. Kerry wants to measure inputs and outputs. Furthermore, on May 7, a month after chiding Kerry, Brownstein applauded the senator for encouraging states "to impose accountability measures that teacher unions have resisted. … Kerry's new proposal, following his release Tuesday of a plan to reduce school dropout rates, tilts his education agenda back toward the accountability themes Bush has stressed." Funny, but the Bush campaign doesn't mention this piece.
Anyway, Kerry's principal beef with NCLB, as he has often explained, is that Bush didn't budget the funds necessary to help schools meet the new standards. And that really is a Bush shift, not a Kerry shift.
Jake, I agree that Kerry has tried to have it both ways on NCLB and the Patriot Act. But you also seem to agree that these ads misrepresent Kerry: He didn't "change his mind" on NCLB or urge repeal of the cited parts of the Patriot Act. Kerry isn't a flipper; he's a leaner. He's got a "yes" foot and a "but" foot. He leans on one foot, then the other, depending on which way the wind blows. But he keeps both feet on the ground.
I prefer Kerry's flaw to Gore's. Gore oversimplified things. Kerry overcomplicates them. The latter may be cowardly, but I don't think it's dishonest.